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Accession #	1994.64
Artist	Eastman Johnson
Title	Self-Portrait
Date	ca. 1865-1870
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	9 3/4 x 7 13/16 in. (24.8 x 19.9 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: "E. Johnson"
Credit Line	Purchased with funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg and A. Augustus Healy Fund
Location	Visible Storage: Case 16, Screen B (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: In this self-portrait, Eastman Johnson labors over a desk in a warmly lit room, most likely his Manhattan studio on Washington Square. The painting’s dark palette and quiet mood recall seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, whose style Johnson absorbed while studying at The Hague in the Netherlands. Some of the small framed paintings in the background were probably acquired during the artist’s time abroad, and the canvas itself is an artifact from that period of his life: x-radiographs reveal that Johnson painted this work over a copy of a Dutch portrait.